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 Bloomsbury
at Home by Pamela Todd
Fascination with the Bloomsbury group continues
unabated. This famous circle of friends-Virginia and Leonard
Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Dora
Carrington, Duncan Grant, and others-has become synonymous with
devotion to the arts, acerbic wit, liberal ideas, and outrageous
sexual frankness. In Bloomsbury at Home, for the first time,
readers can experience this group visually-through their
paintings, sketches, family photographs, and new photography of
their homes and studios.
Pamela Todd takes readers inside this notorious
circle of British writers and artists for an intimate look at
their private lives, their elaborate parties, and their
unconventional homes and domestic arrangements. Using generous
quotations from their diaries and letters, Todd re-creates life
among this memorable group of individuals who dared to defy the
restrictions of polite London society at the turn of the 20th
century-and who still arouse interest and curiosity today.
100 illustrations, 80 in full color, 8 1\8 x 10
1/2"
 The
Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Hours is both
an hommage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own
creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back
to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more
contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923,
Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to Mrs.
Dalloway. In the present, on a beautiful June day in
Greenwich Village, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a
party for her oldest love, a poet dying of AIDS. And in Los
Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, pregnant and unsettled, does her
best to prepare for her husband's birthday, but can't seem to stop
reading Woolf. These women's lives are linked both by the 1925
novel and by the few precious moments of possibility each keeps
returning to. Clarissa is to eventually realize:
There's just this for consolation: an hour here
or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations,
to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined....
Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than
anything, for more.
As Cunningham moves between the three women, his
transitions are seamless. One early chapter ends with Woolf
picking up her pen and composing her first sentence, "Mrs.
Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." The next
begins with Laura rejoicing over that line and the fictional
universe she is about to enter. Clarissa's day, on the other hand,
is a mirror of Mrs. Dalloway's--with, however, an appropriate
degree of modern beveling as Cunningham updates and elaborates his
source of inspiration. Clarissa knows that her desire to give her
friend the perfect party may seem trivial to many. Yet it seems
better to her than shutting down in the face of disaster and
despair. Like its literary inspiration, The Hours is a hymn
to consciousness and the beauties and losses it perceives. It is
also a reminder that, as Cunningham again and again makes us
realize, art belongs to far more than just "the world of
objects." --Kerry Fried
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Dedicated to all the anons and all the Woolfians...
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After a shamefully long period of time, the
country of her birth at last has a literary society devoted to its
greatest writer of the twentieth century. We now realise that when
we formed the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain in August
1998 our expectations were extremely modest. We hoped for 200
members in the first twelve months but anticipated a 'more
realistic' figure of around 150. As I write in late July 1999, we
have over 400 members from Britain, Europe and around the world.
We take this as confirmation of Woolf's literary stature...
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The International
Virginia Woolf Society exists for the benefit of readers and
scholars of Virginia Woolf throughout the world. It is also an
allied organization of the Modern
Language Association of America.
A principal activity of
the International Virginia Woolf Society is the organization of
two sessions at the annual MLA Convention and the hosting of an
informal social gathering in conjunction with each MLA. Estimated
attendance figures are given in the log of MLA sessions, but the
expected audience for each session is from 100 to 150 people.
Venue for the social gathering varies, depending on the city. In
Toronto (1993 and 1997), receptions and special exhibitions were
hosted by the Society jointly with the E.J.Pratt Library, Victoria
University, University of Toronto. In San Diego (1994) and in
Washington (1996), informal gatherings took place in the homes of
Society members; in 1995, the Society organized a dinner at a
Greek restaurant near the Convention Site...
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